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FLYR Taking Off with $8mil, Goodnight SPH Startup Accelerator, SheSkills for Pakistani Women

Audrey Raj | Angeline Teh

23-Jan-17 12:00

FLYR Taking Off with $8mil, Goodnight SPH Startup Accelerator, SheSkills for Pakistani Women

    In today’s Enterprise Biz Bytes, Audrey Raj and Angeline Teh talk about: 

    •Travel tech startup FLYR raised $8 million funds for technology that predicts airfare prices by applying artificial intelligence

    •Singapore’s largest newspaper publisher started a startup accelerator called SPH Plug and Play, which has now unfortunately been declared dead

    •SheSkills is launching a new program in Pakistan to empower women through digital skills bootcamps  


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    Tags:  FLYR,  fare locking,  AI,  Artificial Intelligence,  SPH Plug and Play,  SheSkills,  digital skills bootcamps


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